24 N.C. App. 625 - Hardy v. Toler’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2026
2 district · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Nunn v. Smith · 17 N.C. App. 669 - Clouse v. Chairtown Motors, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person shall be injured or the business of any person, firm or corporation shall be broken up, destroyed or injured by reason of any act or thing ... in violation of the provisions of this Chapter, such person, firm or corporation so injured shall have a right of action....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.